edds wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:53 am Very nice! Though I prefer Haworthia longjohnsilveria!!!

But under copyright, so only pirated copies available

At Harlow Carr, the organisers had a job fitting everything in. The show was spread over 2 different rooms, so that didn't help, and it turned out that the available table space was less than ideal, so plants were a bit squashed together. There are bound to be glitches for the first time at a new ve...

The Dudleya was 2nd in class 32 after the Pachyphytum oviferum; the 1st in class 31 was the Crassula tecta which is just visible at the bottom edge of the class 31 Dudleya photo. So the plant was in the correct class, just a glitch with the photo. I'll second Mat's comment: I should add, that a sing...

Herts Mike wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:53 am Some of these growers must have huge greenhouses.

My Opuntias live in a cold frame, because there's no room in the greenhouse.

ralphrmartin wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 7:52 pm Perhaps that's because of its tendency to send out underground runners?

I think that's right, Ralph. In a pot the shoots go round and round the inside of the pot, or attempt to get out of the drainage holes.

Looks happy, Mike, a lot of new growth
It does prefer a wide bowl rather than a narrower pot, doesn't it?

I'd agree about just being patient for offsets. At that size, they're very likely to come next year.

Try rooting individual flower stem leaves/bracts from Sedum suaveolens, rather than the flower stem itself. I haven't tried this with suaveolens, but it works well with some Echeverias.

greatnorthernexotic wrote: ↑Wed Oct 04, 2023 10:43 am ... easy to dismantle temporarily when high winds are forecast.

But aren't high winds in winter often accompanied by rain?

I'm not sure if I'll get any seed but my hopes of getting a little colony going here are still alive. I think it's self fertile. It seldom seems to seed into open ground, but seeds readily into gravel, whether just gravel or gravel top dressing over compost. Tricky to remove it from a clump of hard...

habanerocat wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 12:53 am One of Lidl's best from 2015.

...or 3 of Lidl's best